First Hooked Rug
A hooked rectangle illustrating three distinct, interacting grids: a grid of square lines laid over a grid of radiating disks laid over an oblique grid of squares. Strong yellow oranges and blues punctuate more somber reds and greens.
First Hooked Rug
A hooked rectangle illustrating three distinct, interacting grids: a grid of square lines laid over a grid of radiating disks laid over an oblique grid of squares. Strong yellow oranges and blues punctuate more somber reds and greens.
Artist
Liza Yeager
Medium
Wool strips, cotton backing, cotton rope, wool yarn, thread
Technique
Hand-hooked
Dimensions
24" x 36"
Time Period
2021
Statement from the Artist
My mom makes hooked rugs, and years ago a friend of hers gave her a bunch of old, unwanted rug-hooking materials. Within that stash was this piece: someone had marked out the pattern on the backing cloth, hooked one circle with bright colors, and stopped working on it. I wanted to learn how to make hooked rugs, so my mom offered me the piece to finish. She gave me a stash of stripped wool—a combination of old wool she'd bought at thrift stores and stripped herself and gifted material from other hookers—and I took the piece home to finish. I liked the way the previous owner had started the piece, so I tried to follow her (?) lead with the colors. But I was limited by the wool I had access to. Sometimes I ran out of a color I was using before I could fill a space and I'd have to start over with a new color, or marble in a second color to fill things out. When I ran out of wool, my mom sent me more in the mail.